Stephen Pleban, Travelling Light I, 2022. Oil and wax on canvas, 168 x 152.5cm. Courtesy: the artist and Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney.

‘My paintings tangle with the tradition of landscape painting, imagined contexts, concerns about climate change, and the deep connections humans have with nature. I explore the uncertainty of our relationship with the natural world and, in dream-like depictions, examine the interplay between light and dark, night and day, and our desire to discover new ways of sensing, learning and being. The images are other-worldly but grounded in behaviours, gestures and relationships that enable connection’ – Stephen Pleban, 2023.

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